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Monthly Top Artists

Jun-2005
Shaun Groves (5 plays)
Aug-2005
Leo Laporte (11 plays)
Sep-2005
Relient K (25 plays)
Oct-2005
Relient K (13 plays)
Nov-2005
Mur Lafferty (9 plays)
Dec-2005
The MuggleCasters (3 plays)
Jan-2006
Relient K (11 plays)
Mar-2006
The Onion (1 plays)
Jun-2006
Jack Johnson (42 plays)
Jul-2006
Blue Collar Comedy Tour (31 plays)
Aug-2006
Panic! at the Disco (17 plays)
Sep-2006
digg.com (1 plays)
Dec-2006
Switchfoot (18 plays)
Aug-2007
Weezer (3 plays)
Sep-2007
Family Force 5 (10 plays)
Oct-2007
The Rocket Summer (6 plays)
Nov-2007
Jonathan Coulton (6 plays)
Dec-2007
blink-182 (22 plays)
Jan-2008
The Fray (57 plays)
Feb-2008
The Fray (19 plays)
Apr-2008
Shorts International (1 plays)
May-2008
Simple Plan (4 plays)
Jun-2008
Less Than Jake (20 plays)
Jul-2008
Oasis (1 plays)
Aug-2008
Green Day (3 plays)
Sep-2008
Less Than Jake (13 plays)
Oct-2008
Less Than Jake (19 plays)
Nov-2008
Something Corporate (18 plays)
Dec-2008
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Monthly Top Artists

Jul-2005
Mary Chapin Carpenter (88 plays)
Aug-2005
Rufus Wainwright (59 plays)
Sep-2005
Mary Chapin Carpenter (82 plays)
Oct-2005
Mary Chapin Carpenter (92 plays)
Nov-2005
Dar Williams (84 plays)
Dec-2005
Alabama (63 plays)
Jan-2006
Mary Chapin Carpenter (71 plays)
Feb-2006
Catie Curtis (56 plays)
Mar-2006
Mary Chapin Carpenter (43 plays)
Apr-2006
Mary Chapin Carpenter (129 plays)
May-2006
Mary Chapin Carpenter (55 plays)
Jun-2006
The Onion (30 plays)
Jul-2006
Keith Whitley (59 plays)
Aug-2006
The Weepies (63 plays)
Sep-2006
Mary Chapin Carpenter (47 plays)
Oct-2006
The Weepies (34 plays)
Nov-2006
Mary Chapin Carpenter (124 plays)
Dec-2006
Melissa Ferrick (91 plays)
Jan-2007
Mary Chapin Carpenter (125 plays)
Feb-2007
Mary Chapin Carpenter (163 plays)
Mar-2007
Mary Chapin Carpenter (279 plays)
Apr-2007
Mary Chapin Carpenter (188 plays)
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The Onion - Obama Calls On Nation To Put In One Solid Day Of Work

It's a mindless "YR TOP " survey to keep me amused for a few minutes!

1. How did you get into 30? (The Onion)
I find the weekly publication somewhat amusing, so I began listening to the podcast.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (John Vanderslice)
Time Travel Is Lonely

3. What's your favorite lyric by 7? (Ok City Ok)
Either "She gets mad and makes that Kabuki face," or "Navigating by parallel lines that intersect in incoherent lives." It depends on my mood.

4. What is your favorite album by 9? (Modest Mouse)
The Lonesome Crowded West.

5. How many albums do you own by number 13? (Spacehog)
The three officially released ones, plus one promo of their second album (it's different than the officially released one), and another promo EP, plus various singles.

6. What is your favorite song by 28? (Ghostland Observatory)
Silver City

7. Is there a song by 12 that makes you sad? (Toadies)
Not really. Maybe Away, kinda.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Gorillaz)
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Cabaret is a form that has been taken over by those it once proposed to bury.

Cabaret used to be dangerous. Marya Delvard performing in 1901 at the Elf Scharfrichter--a cabaret in Munich with a name that translates as "Eleven Executioners." http://www.nodanw.com/shows_c/cabaret_essay.htm Her tall, thin, form in a tight black dress--imagine Diamanda Galas, but a hundred years ago. Someone whom I'm sure the respectable citizens thought was a succubus. She sang Wedekind's Ilse, a song about a promiscuous teenage girl. The cabaret was associated with the radical magazine Simplicissimus.

Now we're left with people performing limp versions of standards interspersed with the dryest of banter. The form has been neutered, made respectable and boring. There is no sense of danger. No sense of excitement. And no politics. Tragic divas are classic--but it's not tragic to be out of date, just mediocre.

There are a few who still could save the form. …